The Riddle

The Riddle is a quest.

Details

Property	Description
Giver	Commoners
Membership	Male only
Requirements	Any level
Summary	Take flowers and a book from person to person to find a hermit in a dungeon and bring back his answer to a riddle.

Objectives

Use the location names in your quest journal. Follow map markers when they are available.

Step	Objective	Optional
1	Take the flowers to the spouse in the named town and ask after the hermit	No
2	Take the spouse's book to the teacher in the named town	No
3	Find the hermit in the quest dungeon and show them the riddle	No
4	Bring the hermit's answer to your quest giver in the named town	No

Choices

Decision	Choice
Your quest giver has the answer, and a wedding to pay for.	Take the gold, as promised
Your quest giver has the answer, and a wedding to pay for.	Keep it as a wedding gift for the couple

Outcomes

Added gear requires a successful quest payment and a qualifying outcome. Quest mail alone does not count as payment.

Outcome	Gold multiplier	Gear choice
Your quest giver knows the answer is kindness, and the spouse will marry them.	100%	Yes
Your quest giver learned kindness twice over: from the riddle, and from you.	75%	Yes
Three months passed, and the spouse married another.	No added payment	No

With Questlines enabled, these outcomes control the added rewards. Gold multipliers apply only to gold the quest actually pays. A gear choice offers a weapon, armour and jewellery; keep one. See Quest rewards and loot for rarity, payment and online reward rules.

See Quest reference for offer requirements across quests.

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